HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own 1153 1990 4mo +2h hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html 1Bayes, Bits and Brains 4 96 4mo +3d bayesbitsbrains.github.io 2NetSurf on ReMarkable 2 22 44 4mo +1h akselmo.dev/posts/netsurf-on-remarkable-2 3Pong Clock 31 172 4mo +3d bigjobby.com/pong/?v=2.0 4TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End 14 121 4mo +6h discourse.llvm.org/t/tpde-llvm-10-20x-faster-llvm-o0-back-end/86664 5Polish CEO's company review bombed after stealing hat from child at tennis game 7 35 4mo +1m dexerto.com/entertainment/polish-ceos-company-review-bombed-after-stealing-hat-from-a-child-at-tennis-game-3244263 6Growing Up on Alcatraz 5 13 4mo +1d sf.gazetteer.co/growing-up-on-alcatraz 7What to do with C++ modules? 249 222 4mo +2h nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-need-to-seriously-think-about-what.html 8Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B 19 78 4mo +6h cline.bot/blog/local-models 9New Ruby Curl bindings with Fiber native support 5 83 4mo +1h github.com/taf2/curb/blob/master/ChangeLog.md 10Cricket, Fandom, and the Unspoken Price of Fantasy Gaming 1 8 4mo +3d uselessmbaguy.substack.com/p/cricket-fandom-and-the-unspoken-price 11Lunar soil machine developed to build bricks using sunlight 47 75 4mo +1h moondaily.com/reports/Lunar_soil_machine_developed_to_build_bricks_using_sunlight_999.html 12Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors 61 76 4mo +26m theconversation.com/how-to-poop-outdoors-in-a-way-that-wont-harm-the-environment-and-other-hikers-262426 13Ask HN: Which Open Source License to Choose for a Python Language Server 12 11 4mo +30m 14Spacing Over Cards 10 43 4mo +5h smagin.fyi/posts/padding-over-cards 15Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs 48 101 4mo +6m interfacinglinux.com/2025/08/25/edk2-uefi-for-the-rock-5-itx 16Lord of the Io_uring (2020) 18 44 4mo +3d unixism.net/loti 17[dead] ? 9 4mo +30m 18Nobody cares about decentralization until they do (2024) 5 39 4mo +3h kyefox.com/nobody-cares-about-decentralization-until-they-do 19Eternal Struggle 135 650 4mo +22m yoavg.github.io/eternal 20Why Dishwashers Are Quietly Disappearing from American Homes 39 13 4mo +2h gadgetreview.com/why-dishwashers-are-quietly-disappearing-from-american-homes 21The Case for Crazy Philanthropy 3 31 4mo +3d palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/the-case-for-crazy-philanthropy 22Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification 85 69 4mo +1h gist.github.com/JWally/bf4681f79c0725eb378ec3c246cf0664 23The 'self-inflicted injury' to US tourism making Americans angry, disappointed 9 30 4mo +41m cnn.com/2025/08/31/travel/international-tourist-decline-united-states 24ECG Interpretation Tools Compared – Why PMcardio Stands Out 0 3 4mo +3d powerfulmedical.com/blog/ecg-interpretation-tools-compared-why-pmcardio-stands-out 25Code Is Debt 69 117 4mo +41m tornikeo.com/code-is-debt 26How many HTTP requests/second can a single machine handle? (2024) 55 64 4mo +13m binaryigor.com/how-many-http-requests-can-a-single-machine-handle.html 27Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave 67 66 4mo +2m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/zuckerbergs-ai-hires-disrupt-meta-with-swift-exits-and-threats-to-leave 28Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century 30 112 4mo +2h worldhistory.substack.com/p/plastic-before-plastic 29I trapped an LLM into a Raspberry Pi and it spiraled into an existential crisis 9 16 4mo +14m trappedinside.ai 30Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling 144 143 4mo +31m 31Use One Big Server (2022) 318 337 4mo +28m specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server 32How is Ultrassembler so fast? 50 120 4mo +3m jghuff.com/articles/ultrassembler-so-fast 33The Last Vestal Virgin and the Fall of Rome 92 59 4mo +3d debramaymacleod.com/blog/the-last-vestal-virgin-and-the-fall-of-rome 34A 'third way' between buying or renting? Swiss co-ops say they've found it 52 52 4mo +7m nytimes.com/2025/08/26/realestate/switzerland-rental-coops-nonprofit-lausanne.html 35I Don't Have Spotify 130 228 4mo +42m idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com 36When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire 326 229 4mo +17m oikofuge.com/sun-sets-on-british-empire 37Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows 53 102 4mo +24m 38Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers to Scale the OSS Security Stack 0 1 4mo +23s ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/yaEvock-solutions-engineer 39Baby's first type checker 1 8 4mo +1h austinhenley.com/blog/babytypechecker.html 40How to run latest Vegas Pro 22 in Windows 7 x64 28 52 4mo +3d trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/how-to-run-latest-vegas-pro-22-in-windows-7-no-matter-what 41eBPF 101: Your First Step into Kernel Programming 5 64 4mo +21m journal.hexmos.com/ebpf-introduction 42Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers 99 132 4mo +13m padailypost.com/2025/08/29/family-of-microsoft-employee-who-died-warn-tech-companies-not-to-overwork-workers 43Cracks in the Earth Are Slicing Through Cities 1 15 4mo +41m scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gullies-in-the-earth-threaten-cities-in-africa-amid-rapid-urbanization 44Jujutsu for everyone 400 429 4mo +25m jj-for-everyone.github.io 45Notes on Managing ADHD 307 573 4mo +2h borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd 46No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search 184 136 4mo +13m bradt.ca/blog/no-clicks-no-content 47A 20-Year-Old Algorithm Can Help Us Understand Transformer Embeddings 15 107 4mo +3d ai.stanford.eduhttp:///blog/db-ksvd 48FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos of himself criticizing vaccines 155 268 4mo +13m theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/fda-official-youtube-videos 49[dead] ? 5 4mo +2h co2coalition.org 50Replacing a cache service with a database 65 78 4mo +28m avi.im/blag/2025/db-cache 51Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated 374 211 4mo +13m fastly.com/blog/senior-developers-ship-more-ai-code 52Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites 0 16 4mo +1h digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites 53Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video] 569 538 4mo +1h youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKlIV_70E 54F-Droid site certificate expired 108 153 4mo +2h gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/883 55AI is the natural next step in making computers more accessible and useful 52 43 4mo +17m vincirufus.com/posts/ai-next-evolution-of-computers 56Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code 117 179 4mo +2d levelup.gitconnected.com/vibe-coding-as-a-coding-veteran-cd370fe2be50 57Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet? 192 326 4mo +1h algassert.com/post/2500 58“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone” 132 754 4mo +44m history.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/this-telegram-must-be-closely-paraphrased-before-being-communicated-to-anyone 59A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property 3 27 4mo +3d arxiv.org/abs/2508.18475 60[dead] ? 5 4mo +3h banana-ai.org 61Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer, NYC 0 1 4mo +20s channel3.notion.site/founding-engineer 62Shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer (2019) 36 51 4mo +3d snf.github.io/2019/02/13/shared-ptr-optimization 63Sniffly – Claude Code Analytics Dashboard 19 41 4mo +2h github.com/chiphuyen/sniffly 64Show HN: An ncurses CUDA-based fluid simulation 12 95 4mo +3d github.com/seanwevans/fluid-sims 65Just use `git` to manage your dotfiles 14 26 4mo +28m ericgreer.info/post/2025-08-31-simple-dotfiles-script 66Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024) 76 78 4mo +31m commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo 67Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost 121 153 4mo +3d cdm.link/bitwig-studio-6-details 68Show HN: Q.js – Smaller than React/Vue, yet more powerful (40KB gzipped) 20 11 4mo +4h github.com/Qbix/Q.js 69Multi-Timer Gizmo 2 17 4mo +3d pgadey.ca/notes/multi-timer 70I Don't Like "AI" 20 43 4mo +1h ian.mccowan.space/2024/07/22/ai 71My Foray into Vlang 41 87 4mo +1h kristun.dev/posts/my-foray-into-vlang 72Git Diagramming "The Weave" 78 278 4mo +1h daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave 73Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes 117 149 4mo +1h savingcountrymusic.com/rick-beato-is-right-to-rant-about-music-copyright-strikes 74What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry? 45 116 4mo +3d oneuptime.com/blog/post/2025-08-27-traces-and-spans-in-opentelemetry/view 75My phone is an ereader now 116 325 4mo +3h davepagurek.com/blog/minimal-phone 76Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL 78 94 4mo +2h github.com/red/red 77Terminal sessions you can bookmark 12 86 4mo +3d poor.dev/blog/building-zellij-web-terminal 78Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease 70 58 4mo +19m bbc.com/news/articles/c0l6ye6xe12o 79Sheafification – The optimal path to mathematical mastery: The fast track (2022) 49 94 4mo +36m sheafification.com/the-fast-track 80Are people's bosses making them use AI tools? 102 122 4mo +1h piccalil.li/blog/are-peoples-bosses-really-making-them-use-ai 81Josef Bacik Leaving Meta and Stepping Back from Kernel Development 1 38 4mo +13m phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta 82The World Runs 20B Instances of Curl. 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(Pt. 3) 10 15 4mo +3d mixxx.org/news/2025-08-27-dvs-internals-pt3 84Compositional Datalog on SQL: Relational Algebra of the Environment 3 47 4mo +3d philipzucker.com/compose_datalog 85ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies 103 90 4mo +49m signalbloom.ai/etf/stats 86Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days 39 80 4mo +42m abc.net.au/news/2025-08-30/scottish-maclean-brothers-finish-pacific-ocean-row/105711488 87Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor 76 154 4mo +3d dev.37signals.com/running-our-docker-registry-on-prem-with-harbor 88TreeStore: Endowing data with hierarchical structure 0 15 4mo +3d blosc.org/posts/new-treestore-blosc2 89Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia 24 48 4mo +1h nbcnews.com/world/europe/viva-verdis-man-declares-country-unclaimed-pocket-land-serbia-croatia-rcna228004 90 More... 2025.08.30